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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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Money markets price just a 15% probability of rates rising by a quarter point on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dzeko netted 50 Premier League goals for Manchester City, with more than a quarter of those coming as a substitute.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

During its investor day, Anthropic shared that it generated $16.8 billion in the quarter that ended Sept. 30.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

They spent $529 on average in the third quarter of 2026, the highest amount over a nearly five-year period, according to a recent report from Guidepoint Qsight, a provider of medical-aesthetics data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It wasn’t long before it had made a quarter turn and Cleopatra’s Needle was facing east along 86th Street.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Investors should compare operating cash flow, capital spending and financing commitments over several quarters, allowing for the timing of construction and equipment purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Anthropic also reportedly said that it’s been profitable on an adjusted basis for the past two quarters, and cash-flow positive for the past quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

So while it may have felt like the case for several quarters, investors can’t count on banks’ trading desks to always ride to the rescue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Anthropic's revenue has risen in successive quarters this year, from $4.7bn in the first three months to $11.6bn the following period.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

But the string is also vibrating in halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, and so on, producing harmonics.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

The mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol said several explosions shook the city Monday, damaging a building where Russian security forces have been quartered.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

The Third Amendment bans the quartering of troops.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2016

She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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